Philippines willing to acquire other excess Japanese defense equipment

MANILA, -- The country is open to acquire other military equipment which may be declared surplus by Japan.

This was stressed by Department of National Defense (DND) spokesperson Dr. Peter Paul Galvez Thursday.

"If they(Japanese) will have excess defense articles (in the form) of Hueys (UH-H helicopters) and C-130 cargo planes, we will be very much interested in acquiring them," he said in Filipino.

Galvez said that it is easy for the Philippines to "absorb" these equipment as the country has the maintenance facilities, spare parts and know-how to operate these machines as the Filipino military has the same sort of planes at its inventory.